佛祖統紀 5.13

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六祖彌遮迦尊者。中印度人。八千仙人導首。多聞博達有大辯才。往見提迦多曰。我昔與師同生梵天。我遇阿私陀教授仙法。師遇大善知識修習佛道。自此殊途已經六劫。彼仙記曰。汝後六劫當遇同學獲證聖果。今日得遇非宿緣耶。提迦多。即為說法得證無漏。仙眾不信。提迦多為現神變。眾方信服俱得道果。提迦多。臨欲入滅以法付囑。而告之曰。佛以正法付大迦葉。如是展轉乃至於我。我今付汝宜當流布。彌遮迦受教宣流正法。於諸眾生開涅槃道。化緣已畢遂入涅槃。眾取舍利起塔供養（付法藏經）。

The Sixth Patriarch, the Venerable Micchaka, was a man of Central India and the leader of eight thousand ṛṣis. He was widely learned, deeply versed, and possessed great eloquence. He went to see Dhītika and said, 'In the past, I was born in the Brahmā heaven together with you, Master. I met Asita, who taught me the ṛṣi arts; you met a great spiritual friend and cultivated the Buddha-path. From then on our paths diverged, and six kalpas have already passed. That ṛṣi prophesied: "After six kalpas, you will meet your fellow student and attain the realization of the sage fruit." Is not our meeting today due to past conditions?' Dhītika then preached the Dharma for him, and he realized the taintless state. The assembly of ṛṣis did not believe it, so Dhītika manifested supernatural transformations for them; only then was the assembly convinced, and they all attained the fruit of the Way. When Dhītika was about to enter extinction, he entrusted the Dharma to him, saying, 'The Buddha entrusted the true Dharma to Mahākāśyapa; thus it was transmitted successively down to me. I now entrust it to you; you should disseminate it.' Micchaka accepted the instruction and propagated the true Dharma, opening the path of nirvāṇa to all sentient beings. When his karmic conditions for transforming beings were completed, he entered nirvāṇa. The assembly gathered his relics and erected a stupa to make offerings to them (from the *Fu fazang jing*).